Met up with Tristan for a photo shoot for his online social media presence and thoroughly enjoyed myself. 🙂 Tristan is also an avid photographer and after taking some natural light shots for him on our walk through Victoria he shared some example shots on Instagram. The first required a flash and black background and the second a tripod and a neutral density filter. The first shot was simple to do but not easy in a noon day soon but I think we managed to pull it off 🙂 The second shot was something I hadn’t tried before which is to slow the shutter down enough to blur pedestrians passing by but still keep the model (Tristan) exposed properly and in focus (so he couldn’t move). As I mentioned a bit of experimental photography but we tried and think we got a couple of interesting shots for his social media channels.

Saturday was an absolute treat of a day and I was super excited and looking forward to it all week long. One of my mentors, Von invited me to second shoot a wedding at the beautiful Starling Lane Vineyard so I picked him up at the Airport, we had breakfast and then arrived at the vineyard. If you haven’t been to the Starling Lane Vineyard and you’re thinking of a venue for your wedding I would highly recommend it. I met Jackie, the estate manager, and she was lovely enough to share some of the history of the grounds. Some of the buildings are 150 years old! The estate is phenomenal, the grounds are impeccable, the flowers gorgeous and the bunnies are huge (I didn’t take a photo of the bunnies but goodness me they were enormous). First I must say a very big thank you to Von for inviting me as this was my first wedding and although I had concerns and fears shooting my first wedding, his calm demeanor and professionalism made the extremely long day wonderful. I learned so much watching a pro work and being given lots of responsibility to take shots from certain angles and the flexibility to shoot some behind the scenes footage on my cell phone made the whole day lovely. Thank you Von 🙂

Also many thanks to the lovely Bride, Rachelle and her groom Nathan. The whole wedding party knew how to have fun 🙂

After a long Saturday photographing a wedding it was a different pace going to the track at the Pacific Institute for Sports Excellence with Sunny this morning. We planned on doing a sports themed shoot and Sunny came with lots of energy and prepared to work hard. I had him doing sprints, push ups, pull ups, stretching and jumps. Super work ethic. Thanks for shooting with me today Sunny.

Camera Equipment Used

Sony A6000
Sigma 30mm 1.4

I do hope you enjoy the video and if the response is positive will continue to do some behind the scenes videos of my model photo shoots.

I met up with Sunny last night to do a shoot for his portfolio and mine and after talking it out we decided to go to the Legislature buildings here in Victoria BC. He had done a shoot there previously and loved it and I hadn’t shot there before so off we went. I have actually shot some of his work before while he was walking a couple of the runways here in Victoria, like Victoria Fashion Week. He had brought with him two outfits (a fabulous custom suit and blue jacket) to wear during the shoot. We had a blast shooting and with all the fun I forgot to close out the vlog lol. Hope you enjoy the video 🙂

Camera Equipment Used

Sony A6000
Sony 50mm 1.8

I do hope you enjoy the video and if the response is positive will continue to do some behind the scenes videos of my model photo shoots.

Local model Lorne contacted me about doing am edgy shoot under a bridge near a skate park in West Victoria and he invited Alicia to come too. You seen his photo on my Instagram channel as I took some of him and his awesome dog, his awesome Jeep and had him pose in against some older buildings in Esquilmalt. Alicia was so amazing to come on such short notice and we took some amazing photos together. She even helped style one of the shots (the guitar smashing shot), and had some fabulous ideas for posing in the urban/grunge environment. I must say I was impressed with both of these adventurous models.

Camera Equipment Used

Sony A6000
Sony 50mm 1.8
Sony 18-200 3.5-6.3

I do hope you enjoy the video and if the response is positive will continue to do some behind the scenes videos of my model photo shoots.

ABOUT ME

My name is Timothy West and I am a videographer and photographer living on beautiful Vancouver Island in the glorious city of Victoria. I love doing portrait, runway, landscapes and sea life photography. Super enthusiastic about island living.